Watch an 11-Year-Old Kate Middleton in a Production of My Fair Lady

How it took this long for a video clip of an elementary-school-aged Kate Middleton playing Eliza Doolittle on stage to emerge is truly a mystery; but it’s not worth bemoaning the delay now—we should just revel in its charms. And charms there are! Even while playing an imposter duchess, Kate exhibits a regal, downright noble presence onstage. She also manages to elicit notable laughs from the crowd as she delivers the character’s famous “The rain in Spain” dialogue, and doesn’t seem to be affected by any sort of nerves.

The Daily Mail, naturally, can’t help but make a whole fuss about the idea of Kate having portrayed a commoner who attempts to pass herself off as a high-class member of society, writing that she got an “early taste of stratospheric social mobility” in the role. The paper also notes that her love interest in the production, Andrew Alexander—no doubt the benefactor of the fairy dust one is sprinkled with via proximity to Kate—went on to become an accomplished actor, recently starring as Sir John Bullock on Downton Abbey (he’s the guy who flirted with Cousin Rose and played poker with Lord Grantham at that “wild” party earlier this season).

We’re on the record for requesting a K. Mid pop single, but this now has us jonesin’ for her to get back into the acting game. We could see her easily taking on a five-episode arc on Revenge, as a mysterious British aristocrat who tormented Emily Thorne in high school. Or she could play herself on an episode of Veep; just imagine Kate and Selina Meyer having tea (Selina would no doubt need Gary to hold her fascinator in place throughout the entire meeting). Or, in a union that would probably result in the entire United Kingdom needing to just shut down for a month, what if she played a Bond Girl opposite Daniel Craig?! “Kate Middleton . . . is Margarita Diamond . . . in Royal Flush.”

Josh DuboffJosh Duboff is a VF.com staff writer, based in New York, who covers entertainment and culture.